functional.map { |f| f.benefits } Reginald explains what’s the big deal behind functional programming: “Programs that separate their concerns are better programs than those that do not. And languages that facilitate this kind of program design are better than those that hamper it.”
Enterprise 2.0: An How To Guide. This will take you maybe 30 seconds to read, and only a few more to implement. No consultants required.
Pop quiz. How do you read the last few entries on a freakishly long XML log file?
- You don’t. You tell your boss it’s an NP-complete problem and go back to your feed reader.
- You realize XML log files are not the best of ideas, and switch back to something you can easily tail.
- You implement a reverse XML parser.
Hope and prayer. Philip Dorrell: “But there is another kind of “Hello World”, one which is the resort of the desperate programmer, oppressed by the cumulative uncertainty of compile, build, package and deploy.”
100 million+ ID’s and nowhere to go. Nik Cubrilovic: “Funny thing is that most of these announcements pointed to the same list of applications that support OpenID as consumers – but not one of them decided to join that list themselves.”
Chipping the web – Clohesy and Thomas — Chip’s Quips